Dropping Veterans, Very Unlikely

Samu Vellu has been urged to drop veterans from contesting in the next general election as reported in Malaysiakini here. What has been suggested should be followed by all parties including UMNO. It is time we had more young blood in the parliament.

The sad thing is with the exception of Negri Sembilan MIC deputy chairperson Dr L Krishnan, not many will follow in his footsteps. All would rather cling on to power even though they have long past their sell by date. Some use the excuse that there are a lot of things left that they have to do. Come on, if there were things to be done they should have done that when they were in office. If they are not able to do it during their nearly 10 years in office (two terms) they are unlikely to do it in the next five or ten years.

Some would say that they are willing to step down if the party president ask them to do so. What the heck? Just step down. Period.

But I think that veteran MPs willingly stepping down will not happen happen as most of them will be following the leader of UMNO and MIC, Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi and Datuk Seri Samy Vellu, who even though are veterans themselves will be unlikely to willingly step down. Not for this coming general election anyway.